astromech_kuhns
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this is good to know actually. i am interested in learning about pentesting. but that offensive security is deathly expensive.... so a book would be nice. some good suggestions. will look into them more. also backtrack 4 is great to do pentesting on.
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what mouse is he using? it looks sick!
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government control over what you do is crap. im 16. i can tell you it comes down to parenting. i dont do that because my parents taught me not to. not because my school had a block on there Internet.
although i dont agree with porn, its your choice. not the governments.
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i was looking at that, but it doesnt have enough room in it.... :)
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Thanks for the reply, but i was looking for a Live ScanDisk Utility. You know, like a live distro that I can boot it off a CD or something.
if you have a ubuntu cd boot it live and the disk utility is in it.
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can anyone actually shed any light on to this for me?
im not sure what wiki leaks is, i guess its leaked info but theres big hype about it right now, call me out of the loop but i havent paid much attention to it, what is it and whats going on now?
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Hi All,
Just out of curiosity, what Linux tools do you guys use for checking errors on a HDD. I can't use my Windows 7 one, due a to bug that consumes all the available ram and thank you Microsoft for not addressing this issue.
Anyway, the other day I tried scanning one of my disks for errors and i noticed all the available ram being sucked out by the scan disk process. In a matter of 5 seconds, all my 8 gigs of available ram, went down to 500MB. Likely I was able to kill the process in time before the system went hay wire.
Anyway, what tools do you guys use.
Thank you very much
under ubuntu i just go to system->administration->disk utility
its just a disk utility that uses SMART data.
i called tech support for something a couple days ago, and the guy had me run a diagnostics on my bios that took a hour and a half and told me my disk was healthy..... idiots...
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with me recently getting a new laptop, im in need of a bag. any normal person (i read about normal people one time...)would go pick up a $20 bag and throw the laptop in it.
but me, im in need of some specific things and wanted to know if any one can recomend me a good bag. either online or in a store. problem with online is that theres not many good pictures.
things i need:
fit a 17 inch laptop
can carry a power cord
mouse and mouse pad
pen's
cell phone pouch
room for papers/notebook
DVD's/CD's
CAT 5 cable
cable for cell phone
flash drives
would like to be able to carry a good sized book
extra cables of diffrent kinds
computer games
strap for shoulder carry
water bottle on the outside
would be nice if water proof
the book is a biggy for me though. it would be great to carry my A+ book or my unix for programmers and users book in there depending on what im doing. as a tech i want my full setup to be able to go in there.
never really shopped around for laptop bags before.it means leaving the house.....
i cant tell what bags come with what and how many pouches and where online. i would like lots of pouches. so i either need to go out and shop for one, which i am going to do, look around a bit at staples and radio shack, or i order it online but i need some reference's as i cant see much from the one image shown with most of them....
i was looking at the dell/alien ware orion messenger bag, is it any good and would it fit my needs? basically need to haul my computer power cord book and lots of accessories. being a tech crowd i would think some of you would know where im coming from with what im wanting here. so any suggestions are welcome! and let me know if you have or have tried the orion bag out...
thanks!
Kolton
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if you just dont like to pay then untangle should work (dont know if tis the best though) but if you are a open source advocate, then it may not be the best choice because it has a lot of software for it that is proprietary that they offer i think.
i havent personally tried any of these. i listened to a podcast and they were discussing them. so this is only what i have heard.
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yaeh thats a command center. nice one to!
okay so got some work done:
server put in there
fit in and closed just fine
damn windows problems...
added the hole for my networking equipment and firewall box.
added hole for server
monitor for my server set up.
added networking equipment
storage for extra hardware/accessories.
thats about all for now. hope more coming soon!
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i love google links!
where is it?
also, i know obvously you need a good computer, lots of monitors, and lots of control, but should we set a standard maybe as to a command center?
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thats just what i will be hopefully turning into a command center.
my computer and server are on the other side of my room.
so what officially makes a command center is a good question i guess.
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I always wanted to have a command center, maybe similar to the one from Die Hard 4.
But the problem is I don't have enough room in my house, to build such a thing.
At the moment, all I have is a single 23 inches screen attached to a 3 year old, $6000 dollars computer, with an external hard drive almost full.
My internet plan I have upgraded to a SOHO60GB, that should give me a slightly increase in upload speed to 250KB/s.
yeah it will be money which is why it will be a slower processes but it will be fun! two and possibly three monitors across the tops. tv's or nice monitors in the two middle cabinets, computer in center bottom, server in left bottom, and networking/computer accessories in right bottom...
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so, i was watching live free or die hard for the first time yesterday, and after the movie my dad got up and jokingly said, "so wheres your command center?"
it got me thinking, i should have a "command center"
as of now, post pics of your "command center" (place your computers are) here so we can see your setup! and maybe work on a really cool command center set up as i do mine, be sure to post pics of progress to!
and im going to be working on setting up my own little command center, ill post pics of my progress as i get it, but i have a nice piece of furniture that will work nicely to hold everything.
so lets see what you got for a command center and ill start working on mine! (just recently tore it down because i got a laptop and used my desktop as a server...)
and the piece of furniture i was talking about...
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hahaha, we would kick there butt. <_<
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eeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww what happened to the board???!?!?!?
its ugly.
i agree. probably the skin was removed or reset or something. this sucks. hope all works soon.....
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The episodes should have been accessible on Youtube and Revision3
damn. i didnt even realize this. probably have show notes to...
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I do have some old legacy brown dells. They still run. I use them for automation control and local servers. The hd's are beginning to go bad. Since ide drives are the exception now I will either have to gpxe to iscsi or something of the like.
Dells are great as long as you have a warranty. I have seen many many black dells die within a day of the warranty expiring. When I was a tech we would send off for replacement parts just before the end of the warranty even if they still worked to avoid the planned obsolescence. If you have systems that you can not afford to be down, a one day turn around does not mean much. Dell is spending a lot of money in India. Guess where all their support people are. We call Dells, New Delhi's. A lot of good hard working Americans lost their jobs because of Dell moving their operations overseas. Dell does not need our money.
i hate calling support and getting someone that doesnt speak fluent english. microsoft is that way when me and a friend were trying to get a xbox problem fixed and today with HP i had to call them, first one was not very clear english the next was fine though.
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we had a installation party and couldnt do the multi pass because we couldnt get to the episode.
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That is good info. and as good as small business server 2008 looks, this is on a small budget. i was thinking i would just build the server for them. thats why i was wanting to implement linux is because of the cost. but i dont know the effectiveness of it vs windows server as i never used either.
there would only be about 10 people total on the server. and only 1 or 2 accessing it at any given time. like i said i am no server expert but i was thinking about getting a server case and then a decent mobo and processor with about 2 gigs of RAM. probably grab a 1TB HDD and a good power supply. try to keep the cost way down. i dont think i need special server hardware do i? i could built it like a $400ish computer with a big HDD and then throw linux server on there?
or am i missing something?
btw, thanks for the replies!!
Kolton K.
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okay, so i am setting up the network for a small business. that will be no problem. they will be all connected to internet and to a scanner/copier/printer. tomorrow is when comcast will come out and thats when i will set it up.
this company has a lot of paper work. we are wanting to go digital with it all. just scan it in. i was thinking onto a server.
i was thinking about implementing a server but have never needed to do this yet so have no information on it. so im not sure if a server is what we want and if not hopefully you can shed some light. here is what we need:
the owner of the company to be able to do everything, view documents, delete them add them all the good stuff.
the workers need to be able to access documents to. especially ones there using for clients. but not all of them. and not be allowed to delete them.
we need some documents to be accessible to anyone with a account, and some of the older ones and certain ones to be accessible to only the administrator. we also dont want anyone but the administrator to be able to delete documents. but anyone to add them. and you have to use a administrator account or password to put documents to the admin only section...
so basically documents available to all but put a lock on some of them.
we also only want one copy of each document. no duplicates as in one set for employees and then another set of those plus some for the admin. it would take up to much space.
we need people to be able to access these through there computer. and be able to drag documents to it or to scan to it.
and they need to be able to view them through there computer.
we also need to be able to back this data up onto either a external hard drive or onto a second hard drive on the server in case a hard drive fails.
also possibly back ups of the employees computers to automatically go to the server. every two or three days or something.
the computers are all running windows. i figure we would put linux onto the servers. probably linux ubuntu server addition.
and i think that sums up what we need. basically owner with ultimate access and employees with limited to protect the data in case of a disgruntled employee or lack of knowledge or something stupid.
btw, the scanner has a 80GB hard drive on it so the scanned doc's will go there, we also want it to be forwarded to the server automatically if its scanned to the HD.
Thanks
Kolton K.
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I like long walks on the beach and romantic dinners.
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okay, so i have my multipass and i have it working. i can boot into some systems but none of them seem to be configured right.
so i was wondering if i could get some help learning to set up the menu.lst file and to learn what is supposed to be reference for each OS to boot.
what it looks like is i need the kernel and the initrd files to be specified in the menu.lst file for the OS to boot. i was wondering is this correct?
also is there a place i can learn, or what is the code called that you use to make the menu.lst file? it looks like its just referencing of the files...
another thing is im seeing these tree's mentioned but not sure what they are talking about.
i think what im seeing, as a good way to organize the files and if this is not what other people are doing will it work, is to make one dominate menu.lst and in the folder for each OS make another menu.lst file containing the full path to the files being referenced.
for instance in the dominant menu.lst file would look something like this.
timout 120 color blue/black yellow/blue title Trinity Rescue Kit menu /TRK/trkmenu.lst title rescuecd menu /rescuecd/srcdmenu.lst
menu may or may not be the correct way to specify the file path to the sub menu.lst file. not sure.
and the the menu.lst file for trinity rescue kit would be something like:
kernel /trk/kernel.trk initrd /trk/initrid.trk
or something along the sort.
so am i on the right path and when would something other than the kernel and initrd need to be specified? also does the OS folders have to contain a boot folder and a folder with the title? or could they both be in one folder?
any light being shed onto this would do me some good!
Thanks!
Kolton Kuhns
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i added this to my multipass and i had to respecify some file paths. the first time i loaded the code in and ran it, it game me a error about not being able to boot. i changed the path from AVG/filename to AVG/isolinux/filename and then to AVG/usb/filename. that game me a long error message with a kernel panic. i then changed it to AVG/isolinux/filename and to AVG/isolinux/filename. one being vmlinuz and the other initrd.lzm
it would say booting AVG repair tool and then shut my flash drive off and keep a blank screen. something im missing here?
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my parents got me a cool swiss tech laptop carrying bag! fits all my stuff nicely, nice pouch for the new linux book i got to! super awesome all in all. i also got a ipod!